The Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 and Dell XPS 13 (2024) cover a lot of the same ground. They’re among the best laptops out there for someone who wants that lightweight but robust and powerful experience pioneered by Apple’s MacBook line while staying within the Windows ecosystem.
They’re also among the best Windows laptops, partially thanks to using an ARM-based CPU. Specifically, the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite helps keep performance snappy, as long as you’re not gaming, not to mention runs efficiently enough to offer pretty remarkable battery life. They even have the same neural processing unit (NPU) for AI handling. And, of course, they’re both fairly portable as well.
